Rumaan Alam Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This is from Samantha Hunt’s forthcoming “The Unwritten Book” which I loved (as I have loved every one of her books) https://t.co/c07nD2eDyV

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"Both of her novels have the unguarded nudity of correspondence; they have no time for the diplomatic niceties, the aesthetic throat-clearing of most literary fiction. The two novels relate to each other like twitching limbs from the same violated torso." https://t.co/zNU1fC9fVJ

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a thrill to talk to the incredibly charming Diana Souhami about her new book, No Modernism Without Lesbians (how's that for a title) *and* to talk trash about bad period movies about lesbians with @jbryanlowder and @c_cauterucci and @junethomas https://t.co/5A7xh1rR8S

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@austinkleon I feel you might enjoy the makioka sisters, by junichiro Tanizaki

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I wrote about Namwali Serpell’s “The Furrows” for the new @nybooks https://t.co/UntFSBnuNW

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@KeithOB Thanks! Have you read A Children’s Bible, by Lydia Millet? Superb book

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Other standouts: Anita Brookner's Visitors, which I have tweeted about a lot, is fucking unreal; David Gates's Jernigan is great; DeLillo's Running Dog is... idk even, but worth reading

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Bette Howland's "THINGS TO COME AND GO" is out today from @APublicSpace. Thanks to @bookforum for publishing my intro to the volume. https://t.co/EMR0jM6N5Z

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It’s decades since I was a student, but autumn makes me think of going back to school. The best fiction set at a school is Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.

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RT @BookWorld: NOW IN PAPERBACK @Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class @eccobook…